This package provides methods for spatial risk calculations, focusing on efficient determination of the sum of observations within a circle of a given radius. These methods are particularly relevant for applications such as insurance, where recent European Commission regulations require the calculation of the maximum insured value of fire risk policies for all buildings that are partly or fully located within a 200 m radius. The underlying problem is described by Church (1974) <doi:10.1007/BF01942293>.

Develop spatial interaction models (SIMs). SIMs predict the amount of interaction, for example number of trips per day, between geographic entities representing trip origins and destinations. Contains functions for creating origin-destination datasets from geographic input datasets and calculating movement between origin-destination pairs with constrained, production-constrained, and attraction-constrained models (Wilson 1979) <doi:10.1068/a030001>.

Contains, as a main contribution, a function to fit a regression model with possibly right, left or interval censored observations and with the error distribution expressed as a mixture of G-splines. Core part of the computation is done in compiled C++ written using the Scythe Statistical Library Version 0.3.

An implementation of a phylogenetic comparative method. It can fit univariate among-species Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models of phenotypic trait evolution, where the trait evolves towards a primary optimum. The optimum can be modelled as a single parameter, as multiple discrete regimes on the phylogenetic tree, and/or with continuous covariates. See also Hansen (1997) <doi:10.2307/2411186>, Butler & King (2004) <doi:10.1086/426002>, Hansen et al. (2008) <doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00412.x>.

This package provides tools to simulate realistic raw case data for an epidemic in the form of line lists and contacts using a branching process. Simulated outbreaks are parameterised with epidemiological parameters and can have age-structured populations, age-stratified hospitalisation and death risk and time-varying case fatality risk.

This package provides a tool for simulating rhythmic data: transcriptome data using Gaussian or negative binomial distributions, and behavioral activity data using Bernoulli or Poisson distributions. See Singer et al. (2019) <doi:10.7717/peerj.6985>.

Provide various functions and tools to help fit models for estimating treatment effects in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials. Implements methods described in Kenny, Voldal, Xia, and Heagerty (2022) "Analysis of stepped wedge cluster randomized trials in the presence of a time-varying treatment effect", <doi:10.1002/sim.9511>.

The number of studies involving correlated traits and the availability of tools to handle this type of data has increased considerably in the last decade. With such a demand, we need tools for testing hypotheses related to single and multi-trait (correlated) phenotypes based on many genetic settings. Thus, we implemented various options for simulation of pleiotropy and Linkage Disequilibrium under additive, dominance and epistatic models. The simulation currently takes a marker data set as an input and then uses it for simulating multiple traits as described in Fernandes and Lipka (2020) <doi:10.1186/s12859-020-03804-y>.

This package implements a spatially varying change point model with unique intercepts, slopes, variance intercepts and slopes, and change points at each location. Inference is within the Bayesian setting using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The response variable can be modeled as Gaussian (no nugget), probit or Tobit link and the five spatially varying parameter are modeled jointly using a multivariate conditional autoregressive (MCAR) prior. The MCAR is a unique process that allows for a dissimilarity metric to dictate the local spatial dependencies. Full details of the package can be found in the accompanying vignette. Furthermore, the details of the package can be found in the corresponding paper published in Spatial Statistics by Berchuck et al (2019): "A spatially varying change points model for monitoring glaucoma progression using visual field data", <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2019.02.001>.

Combining Predictive Analytics and Experimental Design to Optimize Results. To be utilized to select a test data calibrated training population in high dimensional prediction problems and assumes that the explanatory variables are observed for all of the individuals. Once a "good" training set is identified, the response variable can be obtained only for this set to build a model for predicting the response in the test set. The algorithms in the package can be tweaked to solve some other subset selection problems.

The functions sp() and sp_seq() compute the support points in Mak and Joseph (2018) <DOI:10.1214/17-AOS1629>. Support points can be used as a representative sample of a desired distribution, or a representative reduction of a big dataset (e.g., an "optimal" thinning of Markov-chain Monte Carlo sample chains). This work was supported by USARO grant W911NF-14-1-0024 and NSF DMS grant 1712642.

This package provides a novel meta-learning framework for forecast model selection using time series features. Many applications require a large number of time series to be forecast. Providing better forecasts for these time series is important in decision and policy making. We propose a classification framework which selects forecast models based on features calculated from the time series. We call this framework FFORMS (Feature-based FORecast Model Selection). FFORMS builds a mapping that relates the features of time series to the best forecast model using a random forest. seer package is the implementation of the FFORMS algorithm. For more details see our paper at <https://www.monash.edu/business/econometrics-and-business-statistics/research/publications/ebs/wp06-2018.pdf>.

Interface to sigma.js graph visualization library including animations, plugins and shiny proxies.

This package provides a Shiny app allowing to compare and merge two files, with syntax highlighting for several coding languages.

Implementation of the wavelet-based spatial verification method of Buschow and Friederichs "SAD: Verifying the Scale, Anisotropy and Direction of precipitation forecasts" (2020, submitted to QJRMS). Forecasts and Observations are transformed by a decimated or redundant dual-tree complex wavelet transform to analyze the spatial scale, degree of anisotropy and preferred direction in each field. These structural attributes are compared by a series of scores. An experimental algorithm for the correction of these errors is included as well.

Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for fully Bayesian estimation of time-varying parameter vector autoregressive models with stochastic volatility (TVP-VAR-SV) under shrinkage priors and dynamic shrinkage processes. Details on the TVP-VAR-SV model and the shrinkage priors can be found in Cadonna et al. (2020) <doi:10.3390/econometrics8020020>, details on the software can be found in Knaus et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i13>, while details on the dynamic shrinkage process can be found in Knaus and Frühwirth-Schnatter (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2312.10487>.

Calculates the sample size needed for evaluating a diagnostic test based on sensitivity, specificity, prevalence, and desired precision. Based on Buderer (1996) <doi:10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03538.x>.

Generate continuous (normal or non-normal), binary, ordinal, and count (Poisson or Negative Binomial) variables with a specified correlation matrix. It can also produce a single continuous variable. This package can be used to simulate data sets that mimic real-world situations (i.e. clinical or genetic data sets, plasmodes). All variables are generated from standard normal variables with an imposed intermediate correlation matrix. Continuous variables are simulated by specifying mean, variance, skewness, standardized kurtosis, and fifth and sixth standardized cumulants using either Fleishman's third-order (<DOI:10.1007/BF02293811>) or Headrick's fifth-order (<DOI:10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00072-5>) polynomial transformation. Binary and ordinal variables are simulated using a modification of the ordsample() function from GenOrd'. Count variables are simulated using the inverse cdf method. There are two simulation pathways which differ primarily according to the calculation of the intermediate correlation matrix. In Correlation Method 1, the intercorrelations involving count variables are determined using a simulation based, logarithmic correlation correction (adapting Yahav and Shmueli's 2012 method, <DOI:10.1002/asmb.901>). In Correlation Method 2, the count variables are treated as ordinal (adapting Barbiero and Ferrari's 2015 modification of GenOrd, <DOI:10.1002/asmb.2072>). There is an optional error loop that corrects the final correlation matrix to be within a user-specified precision value of the target matrix. The package also includes functions to calculate standardized cumulants for theoretical distributions or from real data sets, check if a target correlation matrix is within the possible correlation bounds (given the distributions of the simulated variables), summarize results (numerically or graphically), to verify valid power method pdfs, and to calculate lower standardized kurtosis bounds.

Handles datetimes as integers for the usage inside Discrete-Event Simulations (DES). The conversion is made using the internally generic function as.numeric() of the base package. DES is described in Simulation Modeling and Analysis by Averill Law and David Kelton (1999) <doi:10.2307/2288169>.

It computes the solutions to a generic stochastic growth model for a given set of user supplied parameters. It includes the solutions to the model, plots of the solution, a summary of the features of the model, a function that covers different types of consumption preferences, and a function that computes the moments of a Markov process. Merton, Robert C (1971) <doi:10.1016/0022-0531(71)90038-X>, Tauchen, George (1986) <doi:10.1016/0165-1765(86)90168-0>, Wickham, Hadley (2009, ISBN:978-0-387-98140-6 ).

Seven different methods for multiple testing problems. The SGoF-type methods (see for example, Carvajal Rodrà guez et al., 2009 <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-209>; de Uña à lvarez, 2012 <doi:10.1515/1544-6115.1812>; Castro Conde et al., 2015 <doi:10.1177/0962280215597580>) and the BH and BY false discovery rate controlling procedures.

Spatio-temporal data have become increasingly popular in many research fields. Such data often have complex structures that are difficult to describe and estimate. This package provides reliable tools for modeling complicated spatio-temporal data. It also includes tools of online process monitoring to detect possible change-points in a spatio-temporal process over time. More specifically, the package implements the spatio-temporal mean estimation procedure described in Yang and Qiu (2018) <doi:10.1002/sim.7622>, the spatio-temporal covariance estimation procedure discussed in Yang and Qiu (2019) <doi:10.1002/sim.8315>, the three-step method for the joint estimation of spatio-temporal mean and covariance functions suggested by Yang and Qiu (2022) <doi:10.1007/s10463-021-00787-2>, the spatio-temporal disease surveillance method discussed in Qiu and Yang (2021) <doi:10.1002/sim.9150> that can accommodate the covariate effect, the spatial-LASSO-based process monitoring method proposed by Qiu and Yang (2023) <doi:10.1080/00224065.2022.2081104>, and the online spatio-temporal disease surveillance method described in Yang and Qiu (2020) <doi:10.1080/24725854.2019.1696496>.

Provide model averaging-based approaches that can be used to predict personalized survival probabilities. The key underlying idea is to approximate the conditional survival function using a weighted average of multiple candidate models. Two scenarios of candidate models are allowed: (Scenario 1) partial linear Cox model and (Scenario 2) time-varying coefficient Cox model. A reference of the underlying methods is Li and Wang (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2023.107759>.

This package provides monthly statistics on the number of monthly air passengers at SFO airport such as operating airline, terminal, geo, etc. Data source: San Francisco data portal (DataSF) <https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/Air-Traffic-Passenger-Statistics/rkru-6vcg>.